Ajax For Dummies®

Chapter 5. Introducing Ajax Frameworks

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Confronting Ajax design issues

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Downloading images by using Ajax and Dynamic HTML

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Working with the Ajax Gold framework

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Getting XML using the AJAXLib framework

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Using the libXmlRequest framework to grab XML

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The Ajax programming team under your supervision isn’t getting much done, and you decide to drop in to see what’s going on.

“Do we always have to develop all our Ajax code from scratch?” the programmers ask. “We keep forgetting how to spell onreadystatechange and other stuff, and it’s slowing us down.”

“Hm,” you say. “No, you can use one of the many Ajax frameworks available to make developing Ajax code a lot easier, because those frameworks have done all the programming for you. You typically need to call only a few functions.”

“Wow,” the programmers chorus. “How can we get a framework?”

“Just read this chapter,” you say. “Ajax frameworks are usually JavaScript files that you simply include in your own scripts. That’s all you need.” And you show the programming crew a list of available Ajax frameworks.

“Gee,” they say, “there sure are a lot of frameworks out there! It’s going to take us a long time to figure out which one to use.”

You sigh.

This chapter starts the book’s look at the available Ajax frameworks, including one I developed especially for this book (Ajax Gold). These frameworks ...